
Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese
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Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese
About this book
This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volume is to analyse the panorama of contemporary literary fiction in Portuguese under the prism of the economization of cultural creativity and the expansion of neoliberal understanding of creative subjectivity and self-realization. Assuming that neoliberalism still constitutes a haunting presence that becomes present in ways that are far from universal and homogeneous and that are shaped by coloniality, this book expands the debates on cultural labour and literary materialisms beyond European and North American contexts. Dealing with contemporary literary production from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde, Macau, Canada and Goa, the volume also tries to reimagine issues of cultural labour and the expansion of artistic modes of self-definition from the point of view of contemporary literary production in Portuguese.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- The Work of Literature and the Worlding of Contemporary Fiction in Portuguese. An Introduction
- Hands Interweaving Words: José Saramago’s Work as a Subversion of Neoliberalism
- Negative Exoticism: João Paulo Borges Coelho and the Global Literary Marketplace
- Oceans of History in Angolan Literature
- Identity, Periphery and Globalisation: Two Narratives of Macau
- Decolonial Storytelling in Micheliny Verunschk’s O som do rugido da onça
- From Barbarism to Cultural Consciousness in Mozambique: Mia Couto’s Creative Labour
- The Role of African Literature in the Ecological Revolution: An Ecocritical Reading of Os Transparentes [Transparent City] by Ondjaki and Água. Uma novela rural [Water. A Rural Novella] by João Paulo Borges Coelho
- Go Back to Your Own Country! The Dilemmas of the Return to the Territory and to Memories in the Literary Production of Authors of African Heritage in the Brazilian and Portuguese Contexts
- Insurgent Citizenship in Drug Retail and Cultural Challenges in Contemporary Brazil
- Power, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Cape Verdean Literature: Evel Rocha’s Marginais
- The Afterlife of Goan Literature in the Portuguese Language: From Great Houses and Gentlemen Farmers to Villas and Estate Agents
- Diasporic Fictions in English: Examining Ethnicity, Cultural Clichés, Commodification and Exotification in Portuguese North American Literatures
- The Author as Curator: A Procedure for Thinking about Some Current Brazilian Productions
- Literature as Shelter and Trench
- Back Matter